Meet Nimrod, a typical horse in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment. He`s big, black & brave, yet steady as a rock. But what`s his story, & how is he trained for his special military role? The Household Cavalry is a uniquely British institution, famous around the world for its outstanding pageantry & gallantry on the battle field. Its 250 horses, known as Cavalry Blacks, are central to its existence, & visitors to London flock to see these magnificent horses taking part in ceremonies & routine guarding activities. Little is known about how they are chosen, trained & what their duties
- as full members of their regiment
- entail. Here in words & pictures Juliet Blaxland fills in the background to their life & work, providing a fascinating insight into the world of the Household Cavalry horse.

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Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17-year-old doesn`t? Nina`s mum isn`t so sure. But she`s busy with her new husband & five year old Katie. & Nina`s almost an adult after all. & if Nina sometimes wakes up with little memory of what happened the night before, then her friends are all too happy to fill in the blanks. Nina`s drunken exploits are the stuff of college legend. But then one dark Sunday morning, even her friends can`t help piece together Saturday night. All Nina feels is a deep sense of shame, that something very bad has happened to her...A dark, funny
- sometimes shocking
- coming of age novel from one of the UK`s leading comedians. Nina is not Ok will appeal to fans of Caitlin Moran & Lena Dunham.

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Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17-year-old doesn`t? Nina`s mum isn`t so sure. But she`s busy with her new husband & five year old Katie. & Nina`s almost an adult after all. & if Nina sometimes wakes up with little memory of what happened the night before, then her friends are all too happy to fill in the blanks. Nina`s drunken exploits are the stuff of college legend. But then one dark Sunday morning, even her friends can`t help piece together Saturday night. All Nina feels is a deep sense of shame, that something very bad has happened to her...A dark, funny
- sometimes shocking
- coming of age novel from one of the UK`s leading comedians. NINA IS NOT O.K. will appeal to fans of Caitlin Moran & Lena Dunham.

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Bringing to life another side of St Tropez & the legendary Cote d` Azur, Nina shows us a place where cooking has brought people together for generations & creates recipes inspired by locals, places & stories from her childhood here. She explores the real St Tropez & the surrounding area through its secret, scenic walks, eccentric bric-a-brac markets, vineyards & bustling communities of artists & fishermen. Oozing with charm & filled with classic French recipes for gourmet breakfasts, picnics, lunchtime snacks & dinner parties to impress, NINA ST TROPEZ represents family cooking from across the south of France
- with that added splash of St Tropez elegance & glamour that`s intrigued people for decades. Nina Parker has a passion for food. After university, she joined the team at L` Anima, London as a commis chef & fell in love with their style of cooking that uses fresh Italian ingredients with a rustic touch. She has spent time in some fantastic kitchens: from The Dorchester for Alain Ducasse, Tom Aikens, The Ledbury, to the unrivalled Senequier Bakery in St Tropez. Whilst working as chef for Bocca di Lupo`s Gelupo in Soho, they won TIME OUT`s `best gelateria`. In 2012 she launched her own catering company NINA, dedicated to bringing a taste of her childhood to the heart of London & beyond.
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Pawel, a young Polish businessman, is in trouble; in debt to loan sharks his only hope lies with former friends, many of whom are now prominent in Warsaw`s drug-dealing underground. Embarking on a desperate fool`s-gold chase through the city`s grimy apartments & creaking transport system Pawel struggles for survival as part of a generation adrift in moral space & disconnected from family, neighbours & friends. Nine is a brilliant novel from one of Europe`s finest writers: both an existential crime novel & a major work of literature. ...

Nine lives, nine very different religious paths: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet
- then
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A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet
- then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the
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As one of al-Qaeda`s most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks & swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda`s chemical weapons programme, he foiled attacks on civilians & saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side
- & his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy. From the killing fields of Bosnia to the training camps of Afghanistan, from running money & equipment in Britain to dodging barrel bombs in Syria, we discover what life is like inside the global jihad, & what it will take to stop it once & for all.
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Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt`s harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad & as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness & a devastating blend of angry despair & cool detachment, Zsolt
- one of the earliest writers on the Holocaust
- provides not only a rare insight into Hungarian fascism, but a shocking exposure of the cruelty, indifference, selfishness, cowardice & betrayal of which human beings
- the victims no less than the perpetrators
- are capable in extreme circumstances. Interspersed with moments of grotesque farce, grim irony & occasional memories of human kindness, Zsolt`s nightmarish but meticulously realistic chronicle of smaller & larger crimes against humanity is as riveting as it is horrifying.



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Winter, 1980. The Yorkshire Ripper has just claimed his thirteenth victim. Ripper thirteen, police nil. As public anger against the police mounts, Assistant Chief Constable Peter Hunter is sent to take over the investigation. The Strafford Shootings remain unsolved, & the murders of the Jubilee summer of 1977 are still attributed to the Ripper. But Hunter soon realises that all is not as it seems
- & that the police are more heavily implicated in the killings than anyone could have imagined. Jack Whitehead, alone & mad in a mental institution after trying to exorcise the demons from his head with hammer & nail, appears to hold the key. What is the connection between the Ripper & this fresh spate of violence? & what will happen when these men's separate hells collide?
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